Read: Is this the week AI changed everything? ![]() To explain why Google has been spooked into doing something so drastic and improbable, we need to consider the company’s history, which has been characterized by similar follies. Harder to understand is why Google is copying Microsoft, with a plan to cram chatbots into every corner of the Googleverse. Microsoft’s move is understandable: It has tried everything to make Bing a thing, and failed. Having spent billions on a search engine that no one uses, the company has sunk billions more into equipping it with the chatbot technology ChatGPT, on the theory that answering queries with automatically generated, falsehood-strewn paragraphs rather than links to webpages will be what finally persuades users to switch from Google Search.
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